MIRANSHAH: Suspected local Taliban on Tuesday looted Rs 910,000 meant for the salaries of employees at two government high schools, at Narak in North Waziristan, 20 kilometres east of here. The money was being carried in a local passenger van when the robbers stopped the vehicle and took the money, | "Stand and deliver!" "'Stand and deliver'? What the hell does that mean?" "It means gimme yer dough!" |
A manager of the Wana Flour Mills escaped an attempt on his life on Thursday when unidentified gunmen ambushed his vehicle in South Waziristan, security sources said. Manager Sherdad was on his way to a bank inside the Scouts Camp in Wana when the attackers opened fire at him near Karikot Chowk. His bodyguard Asmatullah was injured in the incident, but was in stable condition at a Wana hospital, the sources said. The mill is owned by General (r) Alam Jan Mehsud, who lost the 2002 general elections to a Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal-backed candidate.